(i) with
respect to an owner, means the electric energy charge required to be shown on
the bill of a regulated rate customer under section 15(a) of the Regulated
Rate Option Regulation, and

(ii) with
respect to the City of Medicine Hat or a subsidiary of the City of Medicine
Hat, means, subject to the regulations, the charge for which the City or
subsidiary bills a customer that corresponds to the electric energy charge
described in subclause (i);

2(1) Notwithstanding
any other enactment, during the period beginning on June 1, 2017, and ending on
May 31, 2021, an owner whose regulated rate tariff is approved by the
Commission pursuant to section 103(2) of the Electric Utilities Act
shall determine the electric energy charge using

(a) the
applicable monthly rate per kWh determined in accordance with the owner’s new
RRO rate energy price setting plan, or

(b) the
rate of 6.8 cents per kWh if that rate is lower than the rate referred to in
clause (a).

(2) Notwithstanding any other enactment, during the
period beginning on June 1, 2017, and ending on May 31, 2021, an owner whose
regulated rate tariff is approved by the council of a municipality or the board
of directors of a rural electrification association pursuant to section 103(3)
or (4) of the Electric Utilities Act shall determine the electric energy
charge using

(a) the
applicable monthly rate per kWh determined in accordance with the owner’s new
RRO rate energy price setting plan, or

(b) whichever
of the following rates applies, if that rate is lower than the rate referred to
in clause (a):

(i) the
applicable rate per kWh, if any, provided for by regulations under section
6(1)(b);

(ii) if
no applicable rate is provided for by regulations under section 6(1)(b), the
rate of 6.8 cents per kWh.

Medicine Hat

3 If regulations are made under section
6(1)(c), during the period beginning on a date specified by the regulations and
ending on May 31, 2021, the City of Medicine Hat and a subsidiary of the City
of Medicine Hat shall determine the electric energy charge for a customer
within a rate class specified in the regulations using

(a) the
applicable rate per kWh determined by the council of the City of Medicine Hat,
or

(b) the
applicable rate per kWh provided for by the regulations under section 6(1)(c)
if that rate is lower than the rate referred to in clause (a).

Payments, reimbursements and
adjustments

4 The Minister may, in accordance with the
regulations, make payments to or reimburse or provide adjustments to an owner or
the City of Medicine Hat or a subsidiary of the City of Medicine Hat in respect
of the difference or part of the difference between

(a) amounts
the owner, City or subsidiary would charge if it determined electric energy
charges in accordance with section 2(1)(a) or (2)(a) or 3(a), as the case may
be, and

(b) amounts
the owner, City or subsidiary charges when it determines electric energy
charges in accordance with section 2(1)(b) or (2)(b) or 3(b), as the case may
be, instead.

Operation of the Electric Utilities
Act

5 Nothing in this Act or the regulations
affects the operation of the Electric Utilities Act or the regulations
under that Act except to provide for maximum rates that may be charged to
regulated rate customers or to certain customers of the City of Medicine Hat or
a subsidiary of the City of Medicine Hat and to authorize payments,
reimbursements and adjustments under section 4, and in particular, without
limiting the generality of the foregoing,

(a) nothing
in this Act or the regulations affects the duties of owners of electric
distribution systems under section 103 of the Electric Utilities Act,
including the duty of owners to prepare regulated rate tariffs for the purpose
of recovering the prudent costs of providing electricity services to eligible
customers, and

(b) nothing
in this Act or the regulations is intended to affect a new RRO rate energy
price setting plan approved as part of an owner’s regulated rate tariff in
accordance with the Regulated Rate Option Regulation, whether approved
before or after the coming into force of this section.

Regulations

6(1) The
Minister may make regulations

(a) defining
any word or expression used but not defined in this Act and further defining or
redefining “electric energy charge” for the purposes of section 1(b)(ii);

(b) determining
or providing for mechanisms for determining one or more rates per kWh for the
purposes of section 2(2)(b)(i) and determining the rate, if any, that applies
to a particular owner or rate class of a particular owner;

(c) specifying
a date and specifying rate classes for the purposes of section 3 and
determining or providing for mechanisms for determining the rate per kWh that
applies to the City of Medicine Hat or a subsidiary of the City of Medicine Hat
or to a particular rate class of the City or subsidiary for the purposes of
section 3(b);

(d) respecting
the making of payments, and the provision of reimbursements and adjustments,
under section 4

(i) to
owners whose regulated rate tariffs are approved by the Commission pursuant to
section 103(2) of the Electric Utilities Act,

(ii) to
owners whose regulated rate tariffs are approved by the council of a
municipality or the board of directors of a rural electrification association
pursuant to section 103(3) or (4) of the Electric Utilities Act, and

(iii) to
the City of Medicine Hat or a subsidiary of the City of Medicine Hat,

(v) providing
for mechanisms for determining the amounts of payments, reimbursements and
adjustments,

(vi) respecting
the manner in which payments, reimbursements and adjustments will be provided,
and

(vii) respecting
the use of deferral accounts for the purposes of payments, reimbursements and
adjustments;

(e) respecting
information, including personal information of customers, to be provided by owners,
the City of Medicine Hat and a subsidiary of the City of Medicine Hat to the
Commission, the Market Surveillance Administrator or the Minister for the
purposes of this Act;

(f) adding
to, clarifying, limiting or restricting any powers, duties or functions of the
Commission or the Market Surveillance Administrator as the Minister considers
necessary or advisable to enable the Commission or the Market Surveillance
Administrator to exercise powers, duties or functions for the purposes of this
Act;

(g) respecting
any matter or thing that the Minister considers necessary to carry out the
purposes of this Act.

(2) Regulations under section 6(1)(d) may be
specific or general in their application.

(3) A regulation made under this Act is, if it so
provides, effective with reference to a period before it was made but not
before June 1, 2017.

Consequential amendments

7(1)The Alberta
Utilities Commission Act is amended

(a) in section
39

(i) in
subsection (1)(b) by adding the following after subclause (i):

(i.1) contraventions
of An Act to Cap Regulated Electricity Rates or the regulations under
that Act,

(ii) in
subsection (3)(b) by striking out “or” at the end of subclause
(ii.1) and adding the following after subclause (ii.1):

(ii.2) An
Act to Cap Regulated Electricity Rates and the regulations under that Act,

(b) in section
51(1)(a) by adding the following after subclause (i):

(i.1) has
contravened An Act to Cap Regulated Electricity Rates or the regulations
under that Act,

(c) in section
56(3)(a) by adding the following after subclause (i):

(i.1) has
contravened An Act to Cap Regulated Electricity Rates or the regulations
under that Act,

(2)The Climate Leadership Act is
amended in section 3(2) by striking out
“or” at
the end of clause (a), adding “or” at the end of
clause (b) and adding the following after clause (b):

(c) to
make payments or provide reimbursements or adjustments under An Act to Cap
Regulated Electricity Rates for the purposes of that Act.

Coming
into force

8Sections 2(2), 3 and 6(1)(c) and (d)(iii)
come into force on Proclamation.